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brought from the house at Vevay, on the Lake of Geneva, inhabited 
during his banishment by the celebrated Parliamentary General, 
Edmund Ludlow. On the tablet are the words, “‘ Omune solwm 
forti patria.” “ Any land is a home to a brave-hearted man.” 
DItton. 
Dilton, within this parish, and ecclesiastically attached to the 
vicarage, has a little old Church, with a small crocketed spire, close 
by the railway on the line tow ards Warminster. Dilton had formerly, 
what many parishes used to have, a Church house : one kept solely 
for parish meetings and business. This was built by the parishioners 
at their own cost on a piece of ground nigh to the Church which 
they held on a ninety-nine years’ lease from Edington Monastery. 
There was also in Dilton a field called “The Sanctuary,” which 
belonged to the Knights Templars, or Hospitallers of St. J ohn of 
Jerusalem. This order had a small branch establishment at Ansty, 
in South Wilts, called “‘ The Commandery of Ansty,” which was 
- endowed with bits of land here and there all about the county. 
Dilton Marsh is a different hamlet a little way off, and has a 
Church, a vicar, and parish officers of its own. The manor house 
called Dilton Court was no part of the great Pavely estate, but 
together with Bratton belonged very anciently to the families of 
Marmion and Dauntsey, 
DAvNTSEY. 
The Dauntsey family was one of the very oldest in this parish, and 
I think that it must have been from them that were derived by a 
succcesion of marriages the estates that in the last century belonged 
to the Earl of Abingdon. There is a parish in North Wilts of the 
name of Dauntsey which belonged to them, and they had also large 
property at West Lavington.' Now, the Dauntseys of Dauntsey 
~ 1 The name of Daunteey, of Lavington, after being extinct for some hundreds 
of years, has been lately brought into very prominent notice in such a way that 
the county is not likely to lose sight of it again. Under the will of a William 
Dauntsey, @ native of Lavington, who died some four hundred years ago, a very 
large sum of money has been offered by the Mercers’ Company in London, to 
which certain property of his in London had been bequeathod, with certain cons 
ditions, towards the establishment of a school, 
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